This article examines a topic of much interest, the association of financial architecture and national equity premia for recent eight-year period from 15 emerging-market countries. Modeling simultaneously our estimate of the ex-ante equity premium as a dependent variable and our measure of...

The preference of microfinance institutions for women borrowers is generally attributed to two reasons: women borrowers are more trustworthy and have greater social impact. However, the role of social trust with regard to this gender preference has not been adequately investigated. Controlling...